Sitting here, refreshing Uber, waiting for the fare to drop. Futility?

I’m taking the camera on an adventure

A screenshot of some lyrics from a song called Alright by Built to Spill that say- We can’t do what we want so we do what we can, Fuck all those people who don’t understand

🎵

Some mallard ducks resting on the ice of a pond that reflects the trees in the background. Some of the pond is free of ice.

Ducks be ducking 📷

I’m getting real tired of being eliminated by the Eminem dumma gun in Fortnite 😢 🎮

State of play 🎮

A graphic displays seven different video game covers, each with their titles, including cities skylines, fortnite, gris, horizon zero dawn, kona, pure pool, twisted metal 2

A selection of six video game covers, including celeste, dave the diver, doki doki literature club plus, dordogne, dredge, ratchet & clank rift apart, what remains of edith finch

A collection of video game cover art features titles like child of light, final fantasy x, gravity rush remastered, hellblade senua’s sacrifice, kena bridge of spirits, ni no kuni, oxenfree, sea of stars, spirit of the north, trine 2

Three video game titles are displayed: everybody’s gone to the rapture, lake, the plucky squire

oh! Sea of Stars is on sale and I need to finish it. It’s such a good game but I lost to access when they took it off PS plus. I heard they recently updated the combat system. And there’s a (free) DLC coming next year. I’m in! 🎮

I woke up to a frosty wonderland.

A black and white image of a textured rock on a black background. Album cover art of Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

Music to cry to. I’m so blown away by this album after one listen. 🎵🎧

Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure

I’m deeply uncomfortable with online social platforms. I don’t want to conform to anything. I just want to be me.

I took the camera for a walk this afternoonon and it was absolutely stunning out there. It felt like the first taste of winter in the park and the light was golden. Ahhhhhh

A thin layer of snow covers a grassy yard, with a tree and houses in the background.

Yay!

(Originally posted 18/11/2024, 23:13)

I decided to allow myself to be a little bit unfiltered on public.me compared to anywhere else.

I have been feeling stifled by my own questioning the culture of other platforms and wondering what’s appropriate for a given community.

I looked into partitioning my micro.blog somewhat but it requires technical thingmabobs I don’t really have the skill for.

I find it really hard to relate to people and I have lots of weird experiences and out-there thoughts and ideas. To me they’re real. To others, eh, not so much. But I still want to talk about them.

I owe myself that.

I decided to just go ahead and be really me, or what’s the point? And at least on a new platform people get to choose up front.

I couldn’t stand the idea of established acquaintances on other platforms feeling like I just suddenly start talking quacky stuff.

Anyway. That’s a few thoughts about how this is a sideblog, a background blog, where you find me unkempt, slobbing it up and a bit disordered before I put a brave face on and post something half sensible over on aeryn.me or elsewhere I’m pretending to be normal.

💜

(Originally posted 18/11/2024, 22:42)

On public.me I find myself aimlessly looking for a post button and then I remember 🤦‍♀️ it’s in my messages app

(Originally published 18/11/2024, 22:30)

I’m interested in knowing a few things with public.me-

  • what is the funding model and how is it sustainable?
  • what is the privacy policy?
  • is metadata stripped from media uploads before publishing?
  • is there a plan to integrate android or other messaging platforms?

I have more questions and requests, but it seems premature to get into it all. Seems like the service is just 10 days old.

Things I like already-

  • my posts are already on my device, because I sent them from iMessage
  • there’s a RSS feed for my posts
  • the website is nice and simple
  • the roadmap looks good
  • I’ve had a positive experience with the developer (I had a brain fart that caused my first couple of posts to fail)

Things I’m trying not to feel weird about (platform independent)-

  • other people
  • speaking my own truth

(Originally published 18/11/2024, 10:29)

I’m interested in knowing a few things with public.me-

  • what is the funding model and how is it sustainable?
  • what is the privacy policy?
  • is metadata stripped from media uploads before publishing?
  • is there a plan to integrate android or other messaging platforms?

I have more questions and requests, but it seems premature to get into it all. Seems like the service is just 10 days old.

Things I like already-

  • my posts are already on my device, because I sent them from iMessage
  • there’s a RSS feed for my posts
  • the website is nice and simple
  • the roadmap looks good
  • I’ve had a positive experience with the developer (I had a brain fart that caused my first couple of posts to fail)

Things I’m trying not to feel weird about (platform independent)-

  • other people
  • speaking my own truth

I’m looking forward to the 19th. Pluto moves into Aquarius for 20 years and we have some more seemingly positive astrological shifts upcoming in the days and weeks ahead. I want to believe in astrology but I don’t often experience what the predictions say. Not consciously anyway. But it’s always clearer once some time has passed. I feel all this grief and heaviness has got to shift soon.

(Originally posted 18/11/2024, 09:57)

I’m finding the internet is the most uncomfortable I’ve ever experienced it. Ideologically, people are polarised more than ever. It’s all about hatred, and undermining the personhood of others. It’s about calling for violence in the form of withdrawing support, help, kindness, compassion. It’s about rejecting, ghosting, and gaslighting. The worst part about it is it’s really nice people saying it. People who deserve better, who have been trodden down their whole lives. So who can blame them? Honestly it hurts.

(Originally posted 18/11/2024, 09:25)

I just found out my support centre is temporarily shut down. I was planning on returning today after I temporarily shut down over the last couple of weeks.

I need it. I haven’t been in community for a long time.

Not sure what to do

Snow is forecast for this week. Exciting!

Microblogging by iMessage 😲

https://public.me/aeryn

thanks @bjhess 🔗

I’ve been thinking about watermarks on my art and I can’t be bothered any more. It’s too much work and if someone wants to steal, a watermark doesn’t really stop them. (It’s happened in the past and it felt really yucky).

I like the idea of the old-style LED date stamp on my snaps though.